Economics

The degree of monetary tightening for a sustainable disinflation depends not only on the inflation rate, but also on the conditions that have led to its rise. There are three reasons why considerable monetary tightness might need to be maintained even when inflation decelerates.

Industrial policy is recovering all over the world. Our analysis of more than 6,500 regulatory acts across nations evidenced that advanced economies support high-tech mastered sectors, while emerging markets – the introduction of simpler technologies, which are new to them.

What tectonic shifts are occurring in the world economy and global trade, who are the potential winners and losers in this process, and how the global financial and economic landscape will alter after the storm are the questions addressed by Financial Congress participants.

While advanced economies were promoting the climate agenda as ideology, the Global South was investing in renewable energies and new technology markets. Energy transition is still underway in both ‘worlds’. What this means to Russia was discussed at the Financial Congress.

The Russian labour market is gradually cooling, but high unemployment does not threaten it. The main challenge for the economy is not so much labour shortages as a lack of highly qualified specialists, analyzed the participants of the Financial Congress.

The slowdown in the Russian economy has provoked concerns about an immediate threat of a succession of defaults and a coming banking crisis. Participants in the Financial Congress discussed whether these gloomy expectations were justified.

Although the real estate market is a separate sector, it is characterised by what is called ‘macro-criticality’. This means that the effects of changes in the market extend beyond it and may have an impact on macroeconomic stability in general.

Suboptimal and erroneous financial decisions people make often stem from cognitive biases. Their effect can be mitigated by impacting two key aspects – people’s behaviour and the decision-making environment.